Marines doing that voodoo that we do so well (Post yours too)

We had to wait 40 years for the second ship named in honor of a Marine Corps legend. There should always be a USS John Basilone in service.

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USS John Basilone, warship named for legendary Marine, delivered to the Navy

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works delivered the USS John Bassilone to the US Navy on July 8. The ship is a Flight IIA variant of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone is the only enlisted Marine to receive the Medal of Honor and Navy Cross during World War II.
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For many years we spent two weeks at Emerald Isle. It became a tradition with eleven cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents when they could make it. Only stopped when kids didn't go to the beach during the day or fishing out of Swansboro but only wanted to go to Golfin Dolfin for miniature golf and go-carts in the evening. Son in law has been at New River and daughter remembered Emerald Isle and they stayed a week with her in-laws and the kids in the same place we used to stay. Hope it is a new family tradition. I did love and now miss those vacations and chasing ghost crabs at night on the beach with the kids. She did teach the grandkids how to chase them.
 
This young fella wanted to be a Marine.

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Marine recruit loses more than 100 pounds to graduate from boot camp

Marine Pvt. Carlos Paz-Sosa graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on July 12 after losing more than 100 pounds to start boot camp. Paz-Sosa spent about a year eating right and going to the gym before he shed the weight needed to start recruit training.
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Wow! Great story. Amazing determination and perseverance. Not to mention empathy, leadership and teamwork. For those aspiring to be officers -- Marine or otherwise -- young men and women like PVT Paz-Sosa deserve your very best.
 
Son was a coyote at 29 Palms which was one of the jobs he had where he would call us and say, “I need to tell you this before you hear about it in the news.” He was coincidentally at two nine when this happened. He and his Ops chief flew out to observe one of their platoons train. He called us before it came out in the news. Something else happened last week that I haven’t seen in the news.

He was in charge of the most famous range in the Marine Corps and ran the large ENDX with thousands of troops, planes, and numerous artillery pieces and vehicles. While there has had a danger close artillery impact, a bullet ricochet a rock off his face, and other things he wouldn’t tell his mom.

The real world military is inherently dangerous. I understand sending kids off to the horrors of plebe summer or Beast is the worst thing ever but cherish these times. A day will come soon when you’ll get a call from them that starts, “I’m OK dad but . . .

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Marine killed in Humvee rollover at Twentynine Palms

Two other Marines have died in on-duty vehicle mishaps since October while one Air Force member died and five were hurt in a June Humvee accident. The rollover took place at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in California. No other Marines were injured.
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Devil Doc said:
The real world military is inherently dangerous. I understand sending kids off to the horrors of plebe summer or Beast is the worst thing ever but cherish these times. A day will come soon when you’ll get a call from them that starts, “I’m OK dad but . . .
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This line has appeared many times on SAF, and it's one I take to heart: In the military, there's no such thing as a "routine exercise."

I had it in mind when DS was on an AROTC advanced camp FEX the past two weeks. And I'll have it in mind when DD goes to Twentynine Palms soon for a FEX of her own. It's clear to me that "routine" means different things in the military and civilian worlds.
 
lol, UPDATE: 08/21/2024; this story was updated to include that Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony Taveras-Furcal does not have a waiver that allows him to grow his hair longer than regulations allow.
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Marine arrested for allegedly threatening sheriff’s deputies with his car

Lance Corporal Anthony Taveras-Furcal, 19, was arrested on Aug. 17 for an incident in Greensboro, North Carolina. Taveras-Furcal is accused of ramming a sheriff’s deputy’s car and then leading law enforcement on a chase.
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HQMC put out a video of the ceremony held today. Here's a link from the 1/9 Association, the Walking Dead.

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Corporal Daniel Leroy Heller's Navy Cross Ceremony on August 28, 2024 — First Battalion Ninth Marines Association

Join us on August 28, 2024, as we honor Corporal Daniel Leroy Heller, a Vietnam War hero, with the Navy Cross at Marine Barracks, Washington, DC. Cpl. Heller's extraordinary bravery during Operation Dewey Canyon will be celebrated in a ceremony starting at 10 AM EST.
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If ever a man deserved such a final goodbye, it was General Al Gray.

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Oh, so well done. You could tell every Marine there wanted it to be “just so.”

The missing man formation, Taps and the Navy Hymn bring tears every time. For the family and close friends, I am sure it was cathartic and reassuring to have such an overwhelmingly Marine ceremony so respectfully and pridefully done.
 
And the weather cooperated. After retiring from the USN and before my current job I worked in the same building as the general. I never had a conversation beyond the morning greeting but he always spoke and seemed like he upheld his reputation beyond his active duty years. I don't know if he "worked" there, maybe a board member or something. Anyway, his car license plate read, CMC 29.

Not long later I met the 30th commandant at his church where my daughter and I always bought our Christmas trees. I actually knew him well enough to have a conversation at the base gas station or wherever else we ran into each other. General Mundy was a gem of a man. His license plate: CMC 30.

While I'm name dropping, my son introduced me to the current commandant at the base gym one day a few years ago when he was in charge of MCCDC at Quantico. Probably the most impressive person I've ever had a conversation with. He and DS were deployed in the same AOR and stayed in touch ever since. Not a bad person to have on speed dial.
 
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